Archive for the ‘Miscellaneous’ Category
In Akron
I had lunch at Sky-Way drive-in in Akron today. Haven’t done that since we left town six months and a day ago. It was nice to sit there and feel back home again. Afterwards I headed off to the West Side Bakery to pick up some cookies before heading off to visit with an old [...]
Dingo
A small crew was at the house today working on filling the foundation and roughing in the plumbing. I’d asked the guy moving the dirt around if August could get a ride some time and he kindly agreed. At the end of his day, he let both August and Elizabeth drive his Dingo – the [...]
Fire Pit
We have these crappy little blocks the previous owner used to build some stairs down into the back yard. They were used to build the walls for the stairs and some rocks were dumped into the area to make the floor. Didn’t like it and couldn’t wait to get rid of them. We asked the [...]
‘Finished’ the Fort Today
Anna and I ‘finished’ the fort today. When her sister was in town last week, they sewed a cover for the main part of the fort. We attached it today and it turned out great! check out the pics: //
Bookmark
For some reason I’ve been able to read a lot of books lately. It’s probably because lately I’ve been spending a lot of time on the front porch watching the kids play with the neighbors and I usually take a book out with me. I’ve said this before, but the neighborhood is WONDERFUL and the [...]
Garage Photos
As you may have heard, we’re putting an extra garage in the back yard. Originally it was intended to be a workshop for me (our house doesn’t have a basement, so I needed a place for my tools) but we later decided to move my office out of the bonus room into the outbuilding. The [...]
Your Post Office at Work
Well, we’re all moved in to the house and getting ready to build a garage. We hired a builder, we have preliminary plans and I’m excited to break ground. One of the things we needed for the builder is the survey that was done on the property as part of the closing. I sent email [...]
Lemonade Stand
Anna had a sorority reunion this weekend, so I had the kids all to myself all weekend. On Sunday, we were hanging out, playing in the yard and so on. Before long it was lunch time and I had a house full of kids. August and Elizabeth had been bugging us ever since we got [...]
Drawing on the iPad
OK, so of course I have an iPad and I LOVE IT. I’m having some troubles with Wi-Fi connectivity and I hope Apple does something about it soon. The kids have been playing with it a lot so I’ve downloaded a few drawing applications for it, just so the kids have something to do. Here’s [...]
August and I snuck out and played golf yesterday…
Elizabeth was invited to a birthday party yesterday afternoon and, since August wasn’t invited, I decided it would be a good time for the two of us to have some quality time together. I was going to say ‘he and I’ but worried that Anna would correct my grammar, she’s always doing that, so I [...]